Episodes

  • The Power of a Song for a Friend
    Oct 7 2024

    Welcome to the long-awaited Season Four of The Power of Singing Podcast: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH PURPOSE. The five members of the Santosha Voice Group have been touring, performing, writing, organizing, and making music happen all over the country since our last season. We are happy to offer you Season. This season is hosted by the talented and inspirational Heather Fetrow. Her original song, "Pilgrim's Song" performed by Heather, opens every episode while Rich McKinney's original song "I'll share my music" performed by the entire Santosha Voice Group, closed out every episode. The Santosha Voice Group consists of: Heather Fetrow, Joseph Gárate, Susan Mohini Kane, Rich McKinney, and Joyce Wells. Every episode consists of a song, a story, and a question.

    Episode #4 features Joseph Gárate who shares his story about singing for a friend's wedding with laryngitis, the song that he sang, and his question for the group about feeling purposeful about performing.

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    36 mins
  • The Power of the Voice as an Offering
    Sep 17 2024

    Welcome to the long-awaited Season Four of The Power of Singing Podcast: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH PURPOSE. The five members of the Santosha Voice Group have been touring, performing, writing, organizing, and making music happen all over the country since our last season. We are happy to offer you Season. This season is hosted by the talented and inspirational Heather Fetrow. Her original song, "Pilgrim's Song" performed by Heather, opens every episode while Rich McKinney's original song "I'll share my music" performed by the entire Santosha Voice Group, closed out every episode. The Santosha Voice Group consists of: Heather Fetrow, Joseph Gárate, Susan Mohini Kane, Rich McKinney, and Joyce Wells. Every episode consists of a song, a story, and a question.

    This episode features Joyce Wells as she tells the story of singing throughout her childhood, shares an original song she wrote and sang for parents expecting a baby, and asks the group a question about doing whatever good we can do through singing. We hope you enjoy it!

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    27 mins
  • The Power of Singing to Heal
    Aug 26 2024

    Welcome to the long awaited Season Four of The Power of Singing Podcast: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH PURPOSE. The five members of the Santosha Voice Group have been touring, performing, writing, organizing, and making music happen all over the country since our last season. We are happy to offer you Season. This season is hosted by the talented and inspirational Heather Fetrow. Her original song, "Pilgrim's Song" performed by Heather, opens every episode while Rich McKinney's original song "I'll share my music" performed by the entire Santosha Voice Group, closed out every episode. The Santosha Voice Group consists of: Heather Fetrow, Joseph Gárate, Susan Mohini Kane, Rich McKinney, and Joyce Wells. Every episode consists of a song, a story, and a question.

    Episode two features Susan Mohini Kane with her heart-breaking yet also inspiring story and song about healing from abuse as a teenager. Her question inspires the group to think about their own healing through singing.

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    29 mins
  • The Power of Singing Like Children
    Jul 25 2024

    Welcome to the long awaited Season Four of The Power of Singing Podcast: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH PURPOSE. The five members of the Santosha Voice Group have been touring, performing, writing, organizing, and making music happen all over the country since our last season. We are happy to offer you Season. This season is hosted by the talented and inspirational Heather Fetrow. Her original song, "Pilgrim's Song" performed by Heather, opens every episode while Rich McKinney's original song "I'll share my music" performed by the entire Santosha Voice Group, closed out every episode. The Santosha Voice Group consists of: Heather Fetrow, Joseph Gárate, Susan Mohini Kane, Rich McKinney, and Joyce Wells. Every episode consists of a song, a story, and a question.

    Episode one features Rich McKinney with his story of "singing" without vocal cords, his challenge for the group to sing like children and his question for us about working with people who are "tone deaf". We hope you enjoy it!

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    28 mins
  • Voices of Children: A Palette of Invention and Character
    Jan 1 2024

    This final episode for Season Three starts the new year of 2024! We are already in production for Season 4: THE POWER OF SINGING WITH A PURPOSE. In this episode featuring Heather Fetrow of The Penelope Project, we explore creativity and expression of children when they sing. And the group explores how their voices own were described by other people when they were children resulting in a surprising discussion about identity.

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    28 mins
  • Why Children Love Singing Together
    Dec 25 2023

    Welcome to Season #3 Episode #4: Why. Children Love Singing Together - featuring Joyce Wells of Enjoy Your Sound. A perfect episode to be released on Christmas Day. Joyce shares her memories of singing together with her siblings as a child and a recording of her conducting a very large group of children singing together. The group discusses their memories of singing with others as children.

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    30 mins
  • The Journey of a Child: Exploration & Vulnerability
    Dec 18 2023

    This episode features Joseph Gárate speaking about the importance of feeling supported and safe as children, especially when they are expressing themselves through singing. Joseph shares an original song written with his eight-year-old student. The group discusses their own childhood memories about being supported in their creativity.

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    37 mins
  • Why Children Sing
    Nov 1 2023

    Season Three of THE POWER OF SINGING PODCAST continues with Episode #2: Why Children Sing. The title of Season Three is THE POWER OF CHILDREN SINGING and is hosted by Joyce Wells of Enjoy Your Sound. In this episode Dr. Susan Mohini Kane talks about why we first start singing as children. She also leads us through the development of one young girl's singing from age 4 to age 8. The Santosha Voice Group discusses why they first started singing as children and how that same motivation still holds true for them today.

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    37 mins